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Originator:		CMO Messaging
From:		Professor Dame Sally C Davies - Chief Medical Officer - Department of Health
Issue date:		09-Nov-2017 14:32:08
This alert has been issued to:
		NHS Regional Offices NHS Foundation Trusts (England) - Medical Director NHS Trusts (England) - Medical Director Regional Directors of Public Health CMO Urgent Messages - Recipients on Public Health Link
		Clinical Commissioning Groups NHS Foundation Trusts (England) - Chief Executive CMO Urgent Messages - Non-NHS Recipients on Public Health Link Territorial CMOs in Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales Director of Public Health NHS Trusts (England) - Chief Executive
Action category:		Class 1: Immediate
Title:		Safe transfusion practice: use a bedside checklist
Broadcast content:		Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT), has repeatedly identified that patients are harmed, and some die, as a result of being given the incorrect type of blood. SHOT therefore recommends a structured process with a bedside checklist; this alert provides information against which organisations should assess their bedside systems.
Additional information:		NHS England Regional Offices: please cascade this alert to GPs.
Alert reference:		CEM/CMO/2017/005
Attachments:		CEM_CMO_2017_005.pdf